Eau-de-Wheeeeeeee! Westford Hill Distillers, Ashford June 7, 2013 Westford Hill is internationally renowned and yet it's fairly likely you've never heard of them. Westford Hill is on Chatey Road in Ashford and is owned and operated by Louis and Margaret Chatey and I'm pretty sure you don't live on a road named … [Read more...]
Onyx Spirits (RIP)
BACDAFUCUP Onyx Spirits Company, East Hartford January 2016 2019 Update: Onyx closed this location in May 2018 with stated plans of reopening “somewhere.” As of May 2019, Onyx had updated their website and stated they planned to re-open in a still-unannounced town in mid-summer of 2019. But in September 2019, one … [Read more...]
Waypoint Spirits
Point the Way to the Booze Waypoint Spirits, Bloomfield August 7, 2015 Did you know this is the very first post I’ve written about a distillery in Connecticut? Of course you didn’t – how could you? That would be weird. But it actually surprised me a little bit. I thought I had written up a visit to one a … [Read more...]
Food & Drink Intro
Connecticut Food & Drink Table of Contents Restaurants, Breweries, Wineries, Cheese! Ice Cream! & More! This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for all sorts of food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over the years and I’ve done them all. I’ve also … [Read more...]
Distilleries
Hootchy Cootchy Connecticut Distilleries & Spirits Makers “Craft” “Artisanal” “Local” “Organic” Let’s call it the CALO movement. It’s everywhere and for the most part, it’s wonderful. In the alcohol world, it’s pretty impossible to satisfy all four of the CALO tenets because we can’t really grow … [Read more...]